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True, but when have politicians ever done anything well? IMO countries progress DESPITE politicians, NOT because of them.

Is the wall that he actually had built chopped liver? Sure looks like infrastructure to me.

How come Finland can stop illegal immigrants while other EU countries are apparently prevented from doing so?

Since when was the law anything but an <deleted>?

Domestic law can be changed and if the UN loves them so much send them all to New York where the UN can look after them.

Ah California, paradise on earth. LOL. Don't some people think the governor has what it takes to be POTUS?

Couple of points: first world women are not having enough children. It's not like they are cattle to be forcibly inseminated against their will. They have determined that having as many children or any children is no longer in their interests, and quite rightly so. IMO it's rubbish to say that we need more people on the planet. We got by just fine in the 1950s with a fraction of the present population. The usual mantra is that we need more taxpayers to be able to support the elders, but when AI robotics is going to make multi millions in western countries unemployable that's a pointless argument. Alternatives were always going to be needed in a society with almost zero manual and even many middle class jobs to do. The Brits shot themselves in the foot by it, the Netherlands will shoot their foots also , and I am afraid that unless the immigration issue is addressed in a sustainable fashion, and a way that it is palatable to all involved, more countries are not far behind. The Brits have not shot themselves in the foot. They just haven't managed to go about it in a way that is achievable, so far. Allowing thousands of uneducated young men to enter any western country when AI robotics has barely started eliminating jobs is IMO madness. Thousands of unemployed youth is never a recipe for a harmonious society. Given that western countries are unable to make certain countries control their population, either they make it good enough there that their citizens don't need to leave to find the "streets of gold", or they find ways to keep them out.

Good one with the Deliverance quip! I hope Joe sticks it out to the bitter end as he's the single best hope for a GOP win, whoever the candidate is. Unfortunately it's looking unlikely he'll still be mentally fit to be standing again, if his recent tv appearances are anything to go by. He just looks so old and decrepit, not to mention losing respect as IMO netanyahu makes a fool of him over and over. He just doesn't look like the leader of the free world ( whatever that is ).

IMO that would be unfortunate. I don't want labour to win, ergo I have to support a tory victory, but I'd prefer with someone other than him ( but obviously not her either ). He lost any support I had for him when he grovelled before netanyahu.

and a lot of people agree with him. Not about the disease per se, but about the governments that used it to become "dictators" for a couple of years, till it became too difficult to keep the, IMO, charade going. It's pretty much in the same category as flu now, and loads of people die with flu, but it was never used to lock people up and destroy businesses like the covid <deleted> was.

Few things excite me in this rotten world anymore, but seeing Biden, Harris and a few more Democrats given the order of the boot, and the wailing and tears from the snowflakes will be sufficient. I would prefer it to be to some more sensible politician than Trump, but if it has to be him to put the hammer to the Dems, so be it.

That's the significant statistic. I expect a lot of that is because of Biden's grovelling to netanyahu and his apparent inability to use his influence to stop the slaughter in Gaza.

Oh dear, should the EU leadership be looking for a different location to put their unelected cabal of bureaucrats?

LOL. No doubt he'll have lots of support among a certain demographic of AN posters active on the "war in israel" sub forum. I don't know too much about him, but he is described as anti illegal immigration, so IMO can't be all bad.

Seems like it's paused anyway. Perhaps Biden sending "all" the shells to israel has put a halt to it.

I never said it was. Don't forget though that the apes are the closest species to humans, so not surprising that they share the same vile characteristics.

You are probably wasting pixels there. Seems that israeli apologists think the Hamas attack came out of a vacuum, and don't even realise that Hamas was created as a result of the illegal occupation and israeli oppression.

Despite your casual disregard for the over FIVE THOUSAND children killed by the israelis, not counting those that are still buried in the rubble of their homes, and the many more thousands of wounded children, more of the world is supporting Macron's appeal than is supporting israel's murderous campaign of bombing residential buildings, hospitals and UN shelters all over Gaza. While israel will win the conflict, given their superior forces, and the IMO craven backing of the US, both israel and the US will be losers in the court of public opinion, and IMO it will come back to bite them later. Apparently Biden is losing support of the voters rapidly, and israelis will be fearful every time they leave israel. Seems they are already fearful even in israel, given they have to be armed to the teeth and have a vast army dedicated to controlling an oppressed and demoralized population armed with a few rifles in the West Bank. I don't include Gaza in that, as it seems that nothing will be left to live in there, assuming the Americans don't run out of bombs to send to israel before it's all blown up.

Biden calls for protection of al-Shifa hospital Seems netanyahu doesn't care what Biden says, given Al Shifa is devoid of patients bar the few that couldn't be moved, assuming they are still alive. Doesn't seem the israelis are providing any medical support. They did take some incubators in for the prem babies, but as there was no electricity or oxygen in the hospital it can only have been a publicity stunt. As for the so called "proof" that the hospital was the "nerve center" of Hamas, it was IMO so pathetically faked that no serious person believes it. Of course now that the Palestinians have been evicted to be bombed to death in southern Gaza, we may be seeing images of the "command center" that they couldn't find for days, despite looking everywhere. As usual, I doubt that any independent organisation will be allowed to inspect the "evidence".

and you are an active apologist for the israeli cowards that have shelled and bombed thousands of people, men women and children, to death while safe from any retaliation.

Deny away, but as a member of the human race you are in it as much as anyone else. Just because you didn't point a rifle at someone and pull the trigger personally, the country that you paid tax to has a lot of dodgy stuff in it's history.

I never killed anyone, but I might have if sent into battle. However, I never claimed that I would not have if it came to it. I did understand that joining the military might involve shooting at someone else. However, the military I joined didn't have a history of killing children. Would you have been a conscientious objector if it came to it?

If true that's good for US workers, at least till AI robotics makes them unemployed, but wasn't it Trump that pushed for jobs to return to the US? That would make Biden following Trump's policy.

Be grateful you were never conscripted then.

I was talking about the human race, not individuals, as you very well know. BTW, if you paid tax that was used to kill others, as in the Gulf War ( I think you were in the UK during Gulf 1 ) that makes you a contributor to war.